“I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.” I CanCultureWatchesTvsTheaterPopsCuriousGarbagePop Culture Author:Michael Kors
“Once Indians become more visible in pop culture and thus more humanized, then it actually chips away at discrimination. Especially after 9/11, it became important for those stories and that human element, for the Muslim, the Hindu, the Sheikh communities to be heard. That's what I hope I get at with the music.” HumansImportantStoriesCultureCommunityHeardElementsPopsDiscriminationVisibleChipsPop Culture Author:Himanshu Suri
“I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".” CulturePopsCategoriesPop CultureUnwantedGravestone Author:Tim Burton
“She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?” HelpingCultureGirlSeriousSweetGayDespairCrossesOptimismCriticsPopsConsumersBordersValleysAcademicGood And BadPop Culture Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to have these expectations of what a relationship should be. So I constantly feel like I have to bat those expectations down.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsShouldHardCultureExpectationsPopsBatsPop CultureSavvy Author:Kim Gordon
“That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.” CultureSubjectsPopsPortraitsPop CultureIconsWarhol Author:Giorgio Armani
“Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensArtHandsCultureCompanyMillionsRecordsFansBrokenInternetPopsLabelsBordersOnlineDistributionPop CulturePresentationRecord LabelsBroken Down Author:Laura Jane Grace
“When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.” PeopleIfsWantMindDoeHateCultureWinningEffortSceneBandBlowPopsGoing AwayDivisionRebelMainstreamPop CultureCan't Win Author:Laura Jane Grace
“I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.” PeopleWayFirstsMeanKidsCultureBlackLinesWhiteCrossesPopsUrbanDressingsPop CultureBlack WhiteCrossoverUncool Author:Brett Ratner
“Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.” WorldWayRealityCultureLinesSpaceFictionBandOceanProjectsScience FictionPopsFascinatedPublishingPop CultureExpeditionsScience LoveDeep OceanFiction And Reality Author:James Cameron
“The pop culture has become more frenetic. There are more forces at work that are far more invasive. However, I think it would be perfectly doable to defend ones loved ones from some of the harsher aspects of public life. You’re not going to be a 100% successful. But you can see when it’s on purpose. It’s so blatantly easy to avoid at times and you can tell when it was unavoidable.” ThinkingWould BePurposeCultureForceEasySuccessfulAspectPopsLoved OnesPop CulturePublic Life Author:Mel Gibson
“I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.” CultureFoundLatePopsPop CultureHomophobicDisheartening Author:Moby
“Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.” IfsWorldWantMadeCultureSacrificePopsPop Culture Author:RuPaul
“I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.” PeopleThinkingImportantCultureRealizingPopsPop Culture Author:Hugh Hefner
“That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.” ThinkingCultureBecomingExpectationsImpactPopsPop Culture Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.” ThinkingEndsFactsRealityFilmCultureCreatingAppreciatePopsFirmIslandsStreamsIgnoredPop CultureGreat ExperiencesCreating SomethingUnyielding Author:Barry Ptolemy
“Pop culture, commercials. You only come across a commercial if you're watching a TV all the time. I've never been all that upset. I like hearing the songs. I guess I've never been all that caught up in it.” IfsSongCultureTvsCaughtPopsHearingUpsetCaught UpPop Culture Author:Iron & Wine
“Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.” CulturePopsVampireHalloweenZombiePop CultureSkullsSkeletons Author:Michael Almereyda
“Don's Mancini father was an advertising executive and I think Don really grew up and all of that stayed in his head. Some of the really great slogans we came up with, over the years, the big advertising buzz-words that we had, Don created those. It's just kind of fun just thinking about what we both love about pop culture and applying it to Chucky film and any others.” ThinkingYearsKindBigsFilmCultureFatherFunGrewGrew UpPopsAdvertisingExecutivesReally GreatSlogansPop CultureBuzz Author:David Kirschner
“Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.” CulturePopsPop CulturePandemics Author:David Kirschner
“I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.” ThinkingWayCultureDangerPopsConstructsExclusivePop Culture Author:Dana Spiotta
“I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.” ThinkingGivingBookDifferentWholeShowsArtistCultureEnjoyFansMediaHugeWallWalkingBandMusicianCaughtPopsOur SocietyDividesMainstreamCaught UpPop CultureDifferent CulturesMainstream MediaCobainNevermind Author:Bruce Pavitt
“Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.” FirstsSometimesRealityCulturePerceptionHappeningsPopsPop Culture Author:Ellen Page
“I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.” WorldFirstsSeemsCultureSeeingFansHugeTypeBandPopsAlternativesPunkPop CultureClashOf Context Author:Nick Zinner
“Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.” PeopleWaySometimesCultureTalkingPopsPop Culture Author:Dev Hynes
“I love pop culture. I love gossiping about all the different stars.” DifferentCultureStarsPopsPop Culture Author:Jon M. Chu
“I'm really grateful to Ryan Murphy for so much because he's fearless. He's so confident. He has a very unusual and unique way of seeing the world sometimes, and he's somehow able to translate that into entertainment for the masses, at the right time in pop culture.” WorldWaySometimesAbleCultureSeeingMassUniqueGratefulEntertainmentPopsFearlessUnusualTranslateRight TimePop CultureMurphySeeing The World Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.” MindChildrenBigsValuesCulturePayAttentionNegativeOur ChildrenPopsPoisonMaterialismDividesPlagueEgotismPop CultureBig Business Author:Suzy Kassem
“I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be a while before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it - well, the people who became stars out of it - their lives were completely changed.” PeopleThinkingWellsHappensCultureStarsCausesChangedPopsPhenomenonTwilightPop Culture Author:Saoirse Ronan
“I still have every record company sending every new, hot track to me, to do music videos, so I'm chained by the foot to pop culture. I still know what kids dress like and speak like, and I still hang out with them. It's just the nature of my day job. I am a freak of nature that has to understand them.” KnowsStillsKidsJobsCultureSpeakCompanyRecordsFeetHotDressesTrackPopsVideoHanging OutFreakPop CultureRecord CompaniesChainedDay Jobs Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.” HardCulturePopsPop Culture Author:Eric Kripke
“I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.” WorldReasonCultureSpeakPopsPop Culture Author:Will Gluck
“We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless.” PeopleKnowsTryingLittlesShowsCultureBitsTalkingLittle BitPopsTimelessPop Culture Author:Jill Soloway
“That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from “Six Feet Under." He didn”t really like to have too many pop culture references because they don”t really hold up after a few years.” YearsCultureFeetSixBallsPopsPop CultureSix Feet Under Author:Jill Soloway
“It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.” IfsHardCultureInterestFocusIntellectualPopsMagazinesFormerPop CultureBuzz Author:Branford Marsalis
“All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.” MayHateCultureIdentityDressesCrowdsPopsArguingComplainingMeatDisappointedPop CultureGagaPariahs Author:Patrick Stump
“It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever it wanted to. You know the same freedom that do-it-yourself punk and post-punk musicians had in the late 70s and ever since. That's about the time I started getting interested in film, and I assumed that film would be moving along with the other pop culture forms. Its finally done it but it's taken decades for it to catch up just to basement band level.” KnowsArtDoneWould BeWantedFilmMovingFormCultureLevelsTakenBandLateMusicianPopsDecadesPostsPunkPop CultureBasementsDo It Yourself Author:Guy Maddin
“I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.” PeopleCultureReaderDollarsPopsMagazinesPop CultureJunkie Author:Laurie Foos
“My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elvis when Rhona Barrett wrote her column about the stars. And so it seeped in.” BigsCultureHouseStarsFansGrewMomGrew UpFilledMy MomPopsMagazinesPop CultureColumns Author:Laurie Foos
“MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.” KnowsMomentsHappensCultureFunPopsAwardsPop CultureMtv Author:Megan Alexander
“I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it literally was the most time-travelly bit of pop culture we had in the mid 80's. I can talk about their tools for considering change. First, the book is metafictive in a traditional sense where I'm showing and telling the reader that the act of writing and reading is a reflexive way to push boundaries of real and literal time travel. Writers and readers are time travellers. The question is what we do with that time we traveled when we leave a book, leave a page.” KnowsWayWritingFirstsI CanBookRealStoriesInspirationCultureReadingBitsReaderPagesToolsFolksPopsBoundariesTraditionalTime TravelConsideringTraveledPop CultureLiteralTravellerWriting And Reading Author:Kiese Laymon
“There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.” HardCultureAwarenessAchievementIntellectualPopsHouseholdPop Culture Author:Sheila Heti
“In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.” KnowsBookCultureLinesFineEdgesPopsComicFakeComic BookPop CultureParodyRazorsFine Lines Author:Zack Snyder
“So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.” GivingLooksWould BeCultureComfortableGive MeFilledPopsBe GoodJournalistRepresentationPop CultureTestosterone Author:Sarah Stillman
“Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.” ThinkingMatterCultureCrimeTvsPopsBritishDevotedSectionsPop CultureBookstores Author:Elliott Colla
“I just see in pop culture, music, visual art, books, etc., a real hunger for the new and different, and I think that's amazing. Satisfying this hunger is part of the responsibility of a creative person.” ThinkingPersonsArtBookDifferentRealCultureResponsibilityCreativeHungerPopsVisualsEtcSatisfyingPop CultureCreative PersonVisual Art Author:Porochista Khakpour
“It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me.” KnowsFeelsMadeBookMatterReasonWholeCultureReadingEnergyEasySpacePopsFamiliarConsumersPop CultureResistingUnfamiliar Author:Lucy Corin
“I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantGivingFeelsImportantRealCultureStuffPopsDuesPencilsPop CultureDiligenceWackySomething RealSharpeningDue DiligenceSharpening Pencils Author:David Rees
“The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.” RealMovingArtistCulturePowerfulTypePopsHonestlyPop CultureHomeworkVery Moving Author:David Rees